“Reading Dune. Frank Hebert was cooking,” posts one X user, with a Dune quote attached. As the AI bubble continues to expand in every direction, Herbert’s quote feels oddly prescient.
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” As ChatGPT and its ilk separate people from the jobs and critical thinking skills, “thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind” seems like an increasingly logical commandment to follow. To illustrate this point, one man turned to ragebaiting in the comments, asking X’s AI Grok: “please explain this post and the quote in it, what should I understand about it?”
